Impact of household expenditures on CO2 emissions in China: Income-determined or lifestyle-driven?

Wang, Qian; Liang, Qiao‐Mei; Wang, Bing; Zhong, Fangxun

doi:10.1007/s11069-015-2067-1

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“…In addition, a carbon tax could have a limited effect by moderately increasing the price of agricultural products in the Spanish economy; 33 in addition, such a tax would be regressive since food is a very important part of the consumption basket of low income groups. 72,73 Returning to the more technical aspects of the framework and the technical implementation presented, we recapitulate that the advantage of an MRIO is that it incorporates the total emissions, direct and indirect, associated with the carbon and water footprints of fruits and vegetables, without generating double counting and without needing to truncate the data. The practical limitations stem from the level of disaggregation of the environmental coefficients for the different products and the timing of these coefficients.…”

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“…Nevertheless, this type of policy encounters serious design and implementation problems for carbon (and water) border taxes , and could conflict with WTO legislation. In addition, a carbon tax could have a limited effect by moderately increasing the price of agricultural products in the Spanish economy; in addition, such a tax would be regressive since food is a very important part of the consumption basket of low income groups. , …”

Section: Discussion In Terms Of Environmental Policiesmentioning

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Is Seasonal Households’ Consumption Good for the Nexus Carbon/Water Footprint? The Spanish Fruits and Vegetables Case

Gómez

Santiago

Cadarso

et al. 2018

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Proximity and in-season consumption criteria have been suggested as solutions for fruits and vegetables consumers to drive the economy to a more sustainable development. Using a new concept, seasonal avoided footprint by imports, we disentangle the role of period and country of origin. Although, as a general rule, consumers could reduce its footprint by choosing domestic produce, this is not always the case. Due to the high efficiency of Spanish domestic production in terms of both CO2e and water use (except for scarce water), imports from some regions, like Africa (green beans, pepper, tomato, banana, strawberry, oranges), contribute to significantly increase both water and carbon impacts. However, a monthly-basis analysis shows unsustainable hotspots for domestic production. Importing from France (apple, potato) or Portugal (tomato, strawberry) reduces both footprints, so Spanish local consumption would be bad for the environment. Hotspots are mainly concentrated in scarce water and, especially, for out-of-season vegetables during eleven months a year (savings up to 389%), nine months for out-of-season fruits and five months for in-season fruits. The results suggest the difficulty to generalize an easy environmental recommendation based on buying local fruits and vegetables: consumption must be analyzed on monthly/seasonal, products and countries basis.

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Section: Discussion In Terms Of Environmental Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Discussion In Terms Of Environmental Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is Seasonal Households’ Consumption Good for the Nexus Carbon/Water Footprint? The Spanish Fruits and Vegetables Case

Gómez

Santiago

Cadarso

et al. 2018

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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“…And diminishing marginal propensity to emit is observed as income rises (Clarke-Sather et al ., 2011). Income-induced carbon emission disparity does not only exist between rural and urban households, rural higher-income households consume a larger proportion of carbon-intensive goods (Wang et al ., 2015). After dividing EU27 households’ income into five groups, a nonlinear ‘Environmental Kuznets Curve’ income elasticity of carbon emissions is observed.…”

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Comparing the determinants of household carbon footprints between rural and urban: evidence from China household survey data

Lv,

Liu,

Chai

2024

CAER

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PurposeUrbanization is driving the growth of China’s carbon footprint. It’s important to investigate what factors, how and to what extent, affect carbon footprints embedded in various categories of rural and urban households’ consumption.Design/methodology/approachWe employ an environmental extended input-output model to assess and compare the rural-urban household carbon footprints and perform a multivariant regression analysis to identify the varying relationships of the determinants on rural and urban household carbon footprints based on the panel data of Chinese households from 2012 to 2018.FindingsThe results show evidence of urbanity density effect on direct carbon footprints and countervailing effect on indirect carbon footprints. The old dependency ratio has no significant effect on rural family emissions but has a significantly negative effect on urban direct and indirect carbon footprints. A higher child dependency ratio is associated with less rural household carbon emissions while the opposite is true for urban households. Taking advantage of recycled fuel saves direct carbon emissions and this green lifestyle benefits urban households more by saving more carbon emissions. There is a positive relationship between consumption structure ratio and direct carbon footprints while a negative relationship with indirect carbon footprints and this impact is less significant for urban households. The higher the price level of water, electricity and fuel, the lower the rural household’s direct carbon footprints. Private car ownership consistently augments household carbon footprints across rural and urban areas.Originality/valueThis paper provides comprehensive findings to understand the relationships between an array of determinants and China’s rural-urban carbon emissions, empowering China’s contribution to the global effort on climate mitigation.

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“…From the year of 2018, a price for carbon is set by 46 The key design elements undertaken in the regional ETS pilots are:…”

Section: Global Application Of Carbon Pricing Policiesmentioning

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Driving factors of CO2 emissions per capita in Asian countries

Dan¹,

Quynh²,

Ha³

et al. 2019

Preprint

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Impact of household expenditures on CO2 emissions in China: Income-determined or lifestyle-driven?

Cited by 21 publications

References 40 publications

Is Seasonal Households’ Consumption Good for the Nexus Carbon/Water Footprint? The Spanish Fruits and Vegetables Case

Is Seasonal Households’ Consumption Good for the Nexus Carbon/Water Footprint? The Spanish Fruits and Vegetables Case

Comparing the determinants of household carbon footprints between rural and urban: evidence from China household survey data

Driving factors of CO2 emissions per capita in Asian countries

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